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Some Stage3D thoughts

A few months ago, we shipped Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 with Stage3D support, since we shipped we have seen great response from the developers and amazing content being developed. From Zombie Tycoon, the first Stage3D game available online, we have seen tanks and zombies destroying cities, cars doing rallys, Ben Franklin fighting the [...]

Introducing the “Starling” book from O’Reilly

A few months ago, I was excited to share with you the birth of Starling, the new 2D GPU framework for Flash. I am happy to announce that the tutorial book I wrote is now published by O'Reilly and available for free as a PDF on O'Reilly website. This should be a good guide if [...]

Async workflows in F#

I thought I would share some more cool stuff regarding F#. I posted a little while ago a little preview of what is F# and how it works. I would like to go deeper here and cover a beautiful concept called asynchronous workflow. To make it short, async workflows allows you to write asynchronous code, [...]

Introducing Mouse lock, right and middle click events

We just released on Adobe Labs, Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 (beta 2) builds. Note that you guys now have access to standalone debugger builds. Yeah, I know. After 4 years, it was about time! The cool news is that those builds introduce a few cool new features, like mouse lock, right and middle click [...]

Focusing

I just posted my thoughts on the Flash Player team blog, about the recent announcements we have made regarding Flash Player support on mobile browsers. As a long time Flash developer who loves Flash, I can tell you that what is happening right now is a good thing. First, we are making bold moves like stopping the development [...]

Free your mouse – Coming soon to a Flash Player near you.

We have been working on a little feature that should make game developers happy, we hope you enjoy it!

Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 beta builds hidden gems

I want to share with you some hidden gems available in Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2, that we just released for beta this week. Those were not mentioned in the release notes, cause they will not be part of 11.2 and AIR 3.2, but will be part of a next release. But that's cool, [...]

Schweppes Experiential: Cocktail Revolution for Schweppes (with Starling)

This morning, I discovered through the Starling forums, that a great installation named 'Schweppes Experiential: Cocktail Revolution' was developped for Schweppes using Starling. The interactive tables you see in the trailer below are using Starling for the animations and particles effects. The developer (Simtechmedia) should be writing pretty soon an article about the process and development of such [...]

Stage3D Max ’11 Sessions and keynote

For those of you guys who may have missed some of the Stage3D (Molehill) sessions at Max, I gathered a few of them below. Make sure you also check the Incubator session (last video) previewing some of the new stuff we are working on. Stage3D (Molehill) at the Adobe Max '11 keynote : Flash Player [...]

Unreal Engine 3 Support for Adobe Flash Player 11 – Unreal Tournament 3